Latest New Hampshire Headlines
All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.H. House Advances $2.9 Million Flood Relief Measure
Feb 27 2006 // New Hampshire towns damaged by last October’s floods would have their disaster relief expenses capped at $5,000 under a bill approved by the House last week. The bill would allocate $2.9 million to pay the...
N.H. House Kills Wal-Mart Bill
Feb 16 2006 // The New Hampshire House soundly rejected a bill Wednesday that would make the state’s largest employers spend 8 percent of their payroll on health insurance. The House voted 212-128 to kill the proposal aimed at...
N.H. Bill Targets Advisers Who Help Elderly Shield Assets from Medicaid
Jan 26 2006 // Critics are questioning the constitutionality of a proposed crackdown in New Hampshire on lawyers and financial advisers who help the elderly shield assets so they can qualify for Medicaid. Critics told a Senate committee...
New Markets
Jan 22 2006 // New Markets Identity Recovery Coverage – Personal Lines Nuts & Bolts: Merchants Insurance Group introduced a newly expanded Identity Recovery Coverage program for homeowners’ policyholders. The new...
New Markets
Jan 22 2006 // New Markets Nuts & Bolts: AIG Excess Casualty, a division of American Home Assurance Company, part of American International Group Inc., introduced xsInResponse, a new product that provides excess liability coverage...
N.H. Vows to Target Motorcycle Safety as Accident Deaths Rise
Jan 6 2006 // Around this time last year, when New Hampshire reported a dramatic increase in motorcycle accident deaths, the state announced it was working on a safety campaign directed specifically at motorcyclists. A $100,000 campaign...
Electric Insurance Adds Tiers to N.H. Auto Insurance Pricing
Jan 2 2006 // Effective Jan. 6, 2006, Electric Insurance will expand its automobile product reach in New Hampshire by introducing additional price points. Using a multivariate pricing model, Electric has developed rate levels that the...
From New England to Virginia, Courts Made Insurance Headlines in 2005
Dec 30 2005 // From Maine to Virginia, many of the insurance headlines in 2005 dealt with compensation and reinsurance probes, just as they did across the country, casting the industry’s reputation in a bad light. But much of the...
N.H. Trucker Caught Paying ‘Under the Table’ to Avoid Comp Costs
Dec 7 2005 // A trucking company owner in Hudson, N.H. has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he conspired to defraud the Internal Revenue Service and Transportation Department and his workers compensation insurance carriers. The...
Mt. Washington Group Plan Offers Savings for N.H. CPAs
Nov 30 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation announced its new group automobile program for the New Hampshire Society of Certified Public Accountants (NHSCPA), a statewide professional association for nearly a thousand New...
Mt. Washington Offers Group Auto Plan for N.H. State Employees
Nov 16 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation has announced its new group automobile program for the State Employees’ Association of New Hampshire (www.seiu1984.org), offering its 8,000 members a 10 percent auto insurance...
Mt. Washington Assurance Offers ID Fraud Protection to N.H. Policyholders
Nov 10 2005 // Mt. Washington Assurance Corporation announced the availability of its new Identity Fraud Expense Coverage for its New Hampshire policyholders. Offered as an inexpensive addition to existing homeowners policies, the...
N.H. Workers’ Comp Rates Going Down
Nov 2 2005 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department has approved a workers’ compensation voluntary market loss cost rate decrease averaging 3.9 percent and an average decrease of 4.6 percent for assigned risk rates. The revised...
N.H. Gets Federal Disaster Aid to Help Recovery from Recent Flooding
Oct 28 2005 // President Bush has approved Gov. John Lynch’s request to declare a major federal disaster in New Hampshire areas affected by the recent floods. As a result, residents, municipalities, businesses and the state are...
Weak Competition Drives N.H. to Require Prior OK of Med-Mal Rates
Oct 20 2005 // Medical malpractice insurers writing in New Hampshire will be required to get advance approval of any rate changes during the next year following an order by Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny. The switch to prior...
Heavy Rains Force Eastern U.S. Evacuations; Four Lives Lost
Oct 11 2005 // Prolonged, heavy rain caused flooding from North Carolina to New Hampshire over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate, knocking out electricity, weakening dams and making roads impassable. At least four...
N.H. Grapples with Worst Flood in Decades; Lives, Homes, Businesses Lost
Oct 11 2005 // New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch, joined by state emergency officials, today toured communities devastated by flooding from this weekend’s rains. “This weekend’s floods devastated a number of our...
For N.H. Agent, a Helpless Feeling Amid the Suffering and Loss
Oct 11 2005 // New Hampshire independent insurance agent Tom Minkler got his first call Sunday morning at 5 a.m. Since then, the phones haven’t stopped ringing. Minkler isn’t bothered by the calls. What bothers him is having...
Katrina Prompts States to Review Their Disaster Playbooks
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
Katrina Prompts States to Review Their Disaster Playbooks
Sep 19 2005 // With the horrors from Hurricane Katrina still flashing on live television, Connecticut emergency officials and Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) met on Sept. 7 to decide how to evacuate 100,000 coastal residents if a Category 4...
